Improvement in hand eating-stamps



What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The employment, in hand stamps, of parallel fmmes arranged side byside on a plane, to receive the type, when made adjustable, so that anyword or number may be brought into position for printing, or retiredtherefrom, at. will, substnntinllyns herein set forth.

2. In combination with said adjustable type-frames, the ram, or wedge D,and dog-lever G, and wedge D, or their equivalent, arranged andoperating substantially as and for the purposes described.

3. Also, the arrangement of the type, forming the words or numbers whichcompose the inscription of' are moved in or out of the extension h; h

the stamp, in sliding cases which of range ,of the ribbon, by means

